There's that darn torque bit I lost..look, the star bit and the straight and phillips too...
We used to have a work co-op called Giddenscrud & McCorts...and a private smut library
but wife did not say "get 1 bottle of milk ,then if they have".(Husband is clearly a big doofus.)
Andria
but wife did not say "get 1 bottle of milk ,then if they have".
which in turn makes husband bring back 6 milks cause they had.
1 goto 10
10 say hi goto 20
20 goto 1
god I miss those days.
but there in lies the problem with your statement Woman have been misrepresenting what they want for ages and expecting men to understand them.He's a doofus for not actually talking to his wife and asking for clarification of what he didn't understand; even a man should grasp that one doesn't buy 6 bottles of milk at a time.
Andria
but there in lies the problem with your statement Woman have been misrepresenting what they want for ages and expecting men to understand them.
all in the hopes of making men less manly and more feminine.
she could have said get 1 bottle of milk and 6 bananas. that way there is noting to confuse adding further instructions was unneeded. in my book He listened well and she just did not realized he was a good follower of directions.
I should add a bakery buys way more then 6 at a time
now your asking him to foretell weather they have bananas or not to ask a clarifier after all she only said if. yes he could have asked if she in deed wanted 6 milks if they had bananas but then they would have argued over his stupidity and she would ignore her error. but to play devil's advocate here he could have correctly inferred she wanted 1 and 6 then she would not have learned to give proper directions and next time it would could have been worse.A bakery, sure... a single woman IS NOT A BAKERY. If he thought she really said she wanted 6 bottles of milk, some vestige of intelligence should have kicked in and had him ask "do you really want 6 bottles of milk?" Asking for clarification is in no way feminine; it is merely intelligent. I can see that her syntax was less than perfect, but anyone with a shred of common sense should have been able to figure it out. Or at least, ask for clarification.
Andria
And, as a coder, I'm glad that my wife is more intelligent than the woman in the coders meme.Well, I'm really glad that my husband is more intelligent than that.
Andria
And, as a coder, I'm glad that my wife is more intelligent than the woman in the coders meme.
Lord Mage does have a point. Many women suffer from princess syndrome to one degree or another and expect men to decipher what they want, need, or say, rather than just being upfront and asking or saying what they should. Not just on personal levels either. In business, it's a lot different dealing with a female lead on a client project than with a male lead. Sometimes the ambiguity leads to novel development that can be utilized for future projects, but more often it leads to longer dev time and multiple rewrites of code portions both large and sometimes even highly specialized user interfaces that appeal, by and large, only to the particular lead (keystroke remapping and behavior modification is a fairly common and unsound request).